The long ago story of a little girl named Ethel Annie who became an orphan when her parents died in 1903: her life and the family who adopted her, her education, her marriage at age 55 and the couple's long journey north to New Brunswick, ME, and into Canada to find out about her family of origin. Lines from the Poem, Dark Harbor, by Mark Strand, Poet Laureate in 1990, summarizes the experience: ... the time has come to embrace your origins as you would yourself ..."